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/1 Former VP Harris claimed that the Biden White House wanted to have separation from DOJ decisions.
Obviously, that’s a LIE.
We exposed—multiple times—how they dictated DOJ’s actions while claiming they were “routine law enforcement.”
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Obviously, that’s a LIE.
We exposed—multiple times—how they dictated DOJ’s actions while claiming they were “routine law enforcement.”
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/2 In April 2023, AFL exposed how the Biden White House initiated involvement in the classified documents case against President Trump long before NARA’s official referral to DOJ.
AFL uncovered documents confirming the prosecution was a sham from the start.
AFL uncovered documents confirming the prosecution was a sham from the start.
/3 The investigation revealed the Biden White House directed a “special access request” that enabled the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, but bureaucrats weaponized the government to mislead Congress about the White House’s role in the raid of President Trump’s home.
🚨🧵New RUSI Report, ‘Criminal Infiltration of Mineral Supply Chains: Lessons from Gold for Critical Minerals’ by @JennyScotland_ is out now!
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The gold sector serves as a cautionary example of how soaring commodity prices, weak governance, and poor traceability can create lucrative opportunities for organised crime and conflict actors.
These groups infiltrate artisanal and small-scale mining communities, causing severe environmental damage, driving violence, and using the precious metal as a primary vehicle for money laundering.
BREAKING: Newly released Epstein photos confirm that Jeffrey Epstein was a recognisable fully featured presence at the Edge Foundation 2011 'billionaire dinners' attended by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Google's Sergei Brin, SpaceX's Elon Musk, and other Silicon Valley luminaries /1
Among the 68 photos released by the House Oversight Committee are these from the Edge Foundation dinner - which Epstein had himself financed. They confirm Epstein was highly visible at the event, and directly photographed. These photos were suppressed. /2 
Other photographs show Epstein engaging intimately with a range of scientists and mathematicians, some I can't identify (one of which is Mikhael Gromov). All this undermines the notion that Edge attendees had no idea of Epstein's central role in it END
Reviewing this, I've found that most of these programs were launched by Imran Khan's 2018-22 government which were renamed or rebranded by Maryam Nawaz to take credits;
Here's a thread on when and who actually launched these program, 🧵👇🏻
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Here's a thread on when and who actually launched these program, 🧵👇🏻
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>Minority Card, Punjab Social Assistance Program
🟢 Originally Ehsaas Program launched in 2019.
Ehsaas Program consists of 50+ sub programs and more than 100 objectives(i.e Ehsaas kafalat, Ehsaas aamndan Ehsaas Nashomuma, Emergency Cash, e.t.c)
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🟢 Originally Ehsaas Program launched in 2019.
Ehsaas Program consists of 50+ sub programs and more than 100 objectives(i.e Ehsaas kafalat, Ehsaas aamndan Ehsaas Nashomuma, Emergency Cash, e.t.c)
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Ehsaas Program covered every low-income individual irrespective of their religion,caste. Maryam classified them and relaunched the Ehsaas Program with new names. Minority Card and PSAP are basically Ehsaas Program (Ehsaas Emr. Cash,Ration,Tahafuz) classified and relaunched.
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1/ A Russian soldier says that only the "marginalised" – drug addicts, the homeless and the destitute – are joining the Russian army these days . He says that the war continues because people in Russia profit from it and that its aim is to "dominate and humiliate" Ukraine. ⬇️
2/ Former Wagner soldier Ruslan from Dagestan, who is now serving under contract to the Russian Ministry of Defence, tells a friend that many soldiers lack motivation because the goals and reasons for what's happening are unclear to them.
3/ "You ask questions that I don’t have answers to, because even when you ask yourself these questions, you ask yourself: why the fuck am I here? You're trying to find an answer in your head, but there's no answer."
Only issue with this article is that it negates to tell you that DLsite has actively been accepting Visa and Mastercard again over the last few months.
While I can’t say exactly when they started accepting again, I’ve been able to make several purchases over the last year and…
While I can’t say exactly when they started accepting again, I’ve been able to make several purchases over the last year and…
…each time I went to my cart, I would be able to select them both as an option for the remaining payment.
Currently there is no option for Amex. Since this change has been made, there is a selection of items that are not listed on the website and require you to use a VPN.
Currently there is no option for Amex. Since this change has been made, there is a selection of items that are not listed on the website and require you to use a VPN.
This change was made likely to comply with international laws. Some content is available for purchase in one country while not in the other. This only seems to apply to nsfw content that would be treated differently outside Japan.
Something very odd happened when the Sandie Peggie employment tribunal delivered its judgment - and it wasn’t just the made-up quotes and mangled law. 🧵
Call it institutional bias, ideological capture, or just the law doing its job, but what Judge Sandy Kemp’s tribunal delivered was the most one-sided outcome since Butch and Sundance decided to come out shooting.
Every single member of the NHS Fife side was accepted as a credible witness. But Peggie and her team were cut down in a hail of negative conclusions. It seems worth spending a little time with the judgment to understand how this happened.
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There is so much misunderstanding about the force-velocity relationship of muscle. This thread is an attempt to help.
TLDR: Muscle fibres impose a real constraint on movement, but the body has many ways to manage that constraint.
TLDR: Muscle fibres impose a real constraint on movement, but the body has many ways to manage that constraint.
At the fibre level, the force velocity relationship is genuine physiology. When fibres shorten very quickly, the force they can produce is lower. This is due to the mechanics of muscle function.
So yes, there is a real constraint at the contractile level. We cannot ignore that.
So yes, there is a real constraint at the contractile level. We cannot ignore that.
But humans do not move as if they are just bundles of isolated fibres. Whole movement is shaped by structure, elasticity and coordination, not just by fibre limits.
In short, our body is designed to help us manage this constraint.
In short, our body is designed to help us manage this constraint.
🧵 THREAD | Bank of Japan just pulled a key pillar out of the global bond system — and silver likes it 🥈
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The Bank of Japan just raised rates to 0.75% — the highest level in 30 years.
More importantly, BOJ clearly signaled more hikes ahead.
This is not a tweak.
This is a regime change. 🇯🇵
The Bank of Japan just raised rates to 0.75% — the highest level in 30 years.
More importantly, BOJ clearly signaled more hikes ahead.
This is not a tweak.
This is a regime change. 🇯🇵
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For decades, Japan was the world’s cheapest funding source.
Near-zero rates powered:
• carry trades
• foreign bond buying
• global yield suppression
That era is ending.
For decades, Japan was the world’s cheapest funding source.
Near-zero rates powered:
• carry trades
• foreign bond buying
• global yield suppression
That era is ending.
Friday 19 December 2025: The World Clock — Worldwide timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Source: forward*com
After MIT professor’s killing, Jewish influencers spread unverified antisemitism claim
Nuno Loureiro’s death seemed to prove Jews everywhere were under attack. There was just one problem.
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Instagram users seized on an unverified claim that slain MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was Jewish.
Instagram users seized on an unverified claim that slain MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was Jewish. Screenshot of Instagram/Image by Louis Keene
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By Louis Keene December 17, 2025
There is no evidence that Nuno F.G. Loureiro, an M.I.T.-affiliated scientist who was fatally shot Monday at his home in Brookline, Mass., was killed in an antisemitic attack. It’s not even clear that he was Jewish.
But after news broke of his death, a rumor spread that Loureiro was Jewish — and targeted for his pro-Israel politics. In the wake of a mass killing at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia, prominent Jewish social media influencers pointed to Loureiro’s death as proof that Jews all over the world were under attack.
The claim appeared to originate from Ira Stoll, the author of a conservative-leaning Substack newsletter called The Editors. In the newsletter and on X, Stoll reported Tuesday that Loureiro was Jewish. On Substack, Stoll attached a screenshot of a Threads post in which a user with that name defended Israel and criticized Hamas.
There was just one problem: The Threads account did not belong to the slain M.I.T. professor. But in an online information ecosystem that rewards virality, paranoia and hot takes — and whose most influential voices are rarely beholden to journalistic ethics — the unverified assertion took hold.
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“Loureiro has been reported to be Jewish with strong pro-Israel views,” the pro-Israel account StopAntisemites shared with more than 350,000 followers. Quoting that post, pro-Israel activist Eyal Yakoby wrote to his 250,000 followers on X, “Every Jew must arm themselves.”
Influencers who repeated Stoll’s claim stated it as fact, usually without stating their source of information. If they had, other uses might have seen that Stoll deleted the X post, and edited his Substack article to include a clarification that MIT had clarified the Threads account belonged to a different person.
Instead, the unverified claim spread to other platforms.
“It’s Jew-hunting season,” the pro-Israel food influencer Gabriel Boxer, who goes by Kosher Guru, and the Jewish account Community News told nearly 400,000 Instagram followers in a joint post. Marnie Perlstein, an Australian Jewish influencer, asked in a Reel why the media wasn’t talking about Loureiro’s Jewish heritage.
nuno loureiro mit jewish
No suspect has been publicly identified in the death of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro. Above, the MIT campus. Photo by Cassandra Klos/Bloomberg via Getty Images
There was a good reason legacy media that covered Loureiro’s death, among them the Associated Press and The New York Times, did not report that Loureiro was Jewish: It’s not yet clear whether he was. Indeed, some evidence suggests he wasn’t.
At around the same time as Yakoby’s post, a man named Joah Santos tried to shoot down the rumor, saying on X that Loureiro, a friend of his, was not Jewish and would have never spoken about Israel or Gaza.
In a phone interview, Santos said he initially met Loureiro through his cousin, who is a physics professor at Harvard, about 12 years ago. Neither Santos nor his cousin was aware of Loureiro being Jewish, Santos said. On the contrary, Santos said, Loureiro would fly home to Portugal to celebrate Christmas with his parents.
StopAntisemites’ post had been reposted nearly 2,500 times and received nearly 600,000 views as of this Wednesday evening, and remains visible on X. Santos’ opposing claim, meanwhile, has been seen only 150,000 times.
The idea that Loureiro was Jewish eventually found its way into Yeshiva World News and the Jerusalem Post, which called Loureiro “a Jewish and vocal pro-Israel nuclear scientist.”
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The messy truth behind a viral video showing violence around anti-Israel protest at an LA synagogue
Authorities say Claudio Manuel Neves‑Valente, a person of interest in Loureiro’s death and in the Brown University shooting, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility. Funeral details for Loureiro have not been announced.
It’s possible that Loureiro was Jewish — neither the university that employed him nor his family has stated otherwise. But no one has been able to say definitively that he was.
The MIT media relations team told the Forward it could not comment on a staff member’s ethnicity or religion, and shared its public statement about Loureiro’s death. MIT Hillel did not respond to a voicemail left Wednesday evening.
Bruno Cappi, who described himself as a close friend of Loureiro’s in the MIT physics department, said in an interview that he had worked with the professor since 2016 and that his friend had never mentioned being Jewish during that time. Many of their colleagues in the department were Jewish, Cappi said, with last names typical for Jewish ancestry like Friedman and Rosen; if someone were attacking Jews, why would they go after someone whose Jewish identity was not widely known? “It’s all absurd,” he said.
More than 24 hours after Santos and others tried to correct the record, the articles from the Jerusalem Post and Yeshiva World News remained online. The posts by KosherGuru and Perlstein — none of whom responded to requests for comment prior to publication — also remain up as of Wednesday evening. (Some X posts have pending crowd-sourced Community Notes underneath stating he is not Jewish and linking to Santos’ post, but those notes are not currently being shown to all users.)
Additional evidence that Loureiro was pro-Israel was also thin: An X user claimed that a Google Street view image of the professor’s home showed a “Stand With Israel” sign. If the image did depict his building, it had been taken three years earlier; it also showed a multifamily building, and Loureiro — if he did live in the building at the time — did not necessarily live in the unit with that window.
Nevertheless, the claim continued to spread. Around 8 p.m. ET on Tuesday — several hours after the posts from Stoll and StopAntisemites — a Wikipedia article was created about Loureiro, which claimed he was born “to a Sephardic Jewish family.” That claim remained on the article for four hours before a different editor removed it.
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Source: forward*com
After MIT professor’s killing, Jewish influencers spread unverified antisemitism claim
Nuno Loureiro’s death seemed to prove Jews everywhere were under attack. There was just one problem.
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Instagram users seized on an unverified claim that slain MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was Jewish.
Instagram users seized on an unverified claim that slain MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was Jewish. Screenshot of Instagram/Image by Louis Keene
Louis Keene
By Louis Keene December 17, 2025
There is no evidence that Nuno F.G. Loureiro, an M.I.T.-affiliated scientist who was fatally shot Monday at his home in Brookline, Mass., was killed in an antisemitic attack. It’s not even clear that he was Jewish.
But after news broke of his death, a rumor spread that Loureiro was Jewish — and targeted for his pro-Israel politics. In the wake of a mass killing at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia, prominent Jewish social media influencers pointed to Loureiro’s death as proof that Jews all over the world were under attack.
The claim appeared to originate from Ira Stoll, the author of a conservative-leaning Substack newsletter called The Editors. In the newsletter and on X, Stoll reported Tuesday that Loureiro was Jewish. On Substack, Stoll attached a screenshot of a Threads post in which a user with that name defended Israel and criticized Hamas.
There was just one problem: The Threads account did not belong to the slain M.I.T. professor. But in an online information ecosystem that rewards virality, paranoia and hot takes — and whose most influential voices are rarely beholden to journalistic ethics — the unverified assertion took hold.
Related
Why are Jewish influencers suddenly talking about Meir Kahane?
“Loureiro has been reported to be Jewish with strong pro-Israel views,” the pro-Israel account StopAntisemites shared with more than 350,000 followers. Quoting that post, pro-Israel activist Eyal Yakoby wrote to his 250,000 followers on X, “Every Jew must arm themselves.”
Influencers who repeated Stoll’s claim stated it as fact, usually without stating their source of information. If they had, other uses might have seen that Stoll deleted the X post, and edited his Substack article to include a clarification that MIT had clarified the Threads account belonged to a different person.
Instead, the unverified claim spread to other platforms.
“It’s Jew-hunting season,” the pro-Israel food influencer Gabriel Boxer, who goes by Kosher Guru, and the Jewish account Community News told nearly 400,000 Instagram followers in a joint post. Marnie Perlstein, an Australian Jewish influencer, asked in a Reel why the media wasn’t talking about Loureiro’s Jewish heritage.
nuno loureiro mit jewish
No suspect has been publicly identified in the death of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro. Above, the MIT campus. Photo by Cassandra Klos/Bloomberg via Getty Images
There was a good reason legacy media that covered Loureiro’s death, among them the Associated Press and The New York Times, did not report that Loureiro was Jewish: It’s not yet clear whether he was. Indeed, some evidence suggests he wasn’t.
At around the same time as Yakoby’s post, a man named Joah Santos tried to shoot down the rumor, saying on X that Loureiro, a friend of his, was not Jewish and would have never spoken about Israel or Gaza.
In a phone interview, Santos said he initially met Loureiro through his cousin, who is a physics professor at Harvard, about 12 years ago. Neither Santos nor his cousin was aware of Loureiro being Jewish, Santos said. On the contrary, Santos said, Loureiro would fly home to Portugal to celebrate Christmas with his parents.
StopAntisemites’ post had been reposted nearly 2,500 times and received nearly 600,000 views as of this Wednesday evening, and remains visible on X. Santos’ opposing claim, meanwhile, has been seen only 150,000 times.
The idea that Loureiro was Jewish eventually found its way into Yeshiva World News and the Jerusalem Post, which called Loureiro “a Jewish and vocal pro-Israel nuclear scientist.”
Related
The messy truth behind a viral video showing violence around anti-Israel protest at an LA synagogue
Authorities say Claudio Manuel Neves‑Valente, a person of interest in Loureiro’s death and in the Brown University shooting, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility. Funeral details for Loureiro have not been announced.
It’s possible that Loureiro was Jewish — neither the university that employed him nor his family has stated otherwise. But no one has been able to say definitively that he was.
The MIT media relations team told the Forward it could not comment on a staff member’s ethnicity or religion, and shared its public statement about Loureiro’s death. MIT Hillel did not respond to a voicemail left Wednesday evening.
Bruno Cappi, who described himself as a close friend of Loureiro’s in the MIT physics department, said in an interview that he had worked with the professor since 2016 and that his friend had never mentioned being Jewish during that time. Many of their colleagues in the department were Jewish, Cappi said, with last names typical for Jewish ancestry like Friedman and Rosen; if someone were attacking Jews, why would they go after someone whose Jewish identity was not widely known? “It’s all absurd,” he said.
More than 24 hours after Santos and others tried to correct the record, the articles from the Jerusalem Post and Yeshiva World News remained online. The posts by KosherGuru and Perlstein — none of whom responded to requests for comment prior to publication — also remain up as of Wednesday evening. (Some X posts have pending crowd-sourced Community Notes underneath stating he is not Jewish and linking to Santos’ post, but those notes are not currently being shown to all users.)
Additional evidence that Loureiro was pro-Israel was also thin: An X user claimed that a Google Street view image of the professor’s home showed a “Stand With Israel” sign. If the image did depict his building, it had been taken three years earlier; it also showed a multifamily building, and Loureiro — if he did live in the building at the time — did not necessarily live in the unit with that window.
Nevertheless, the claim continued to spread. Around 8 p.m. ET on Tuesday — several hours after the posts from Stoll and StopAntisemites — a Wikipedia article was created about Loureiro, which claimed he was born “to a Sephardic Jewish family.” That claim remained on the article for four hours before a different editor removed it.
forward.com/fast-forward/7…
😂🤣Dominus vobiscum. The Lord be with you.
Et cum spiritu tuo. And with your spirit.
Et cum spiritu tuo. which sounds like conspiritutu for conspirations
We need to put, Alexander Emerick Jones aka Alex Jones, on standby to expands on those theories below.⤵️
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Friday 19 December 2025: The World Clock — Worldwide timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Source:Grok @grok
Here are 3 speculative conspiracy theories about MIT Prof. Nuno Loureiro's shooting:
1. Assassinated by fossil fuel interests to halt his fusion energy research threatening oil dominance.
2. Targeted due to his reported Jewish heritage and pro-Israel views amid geopolitical tensions.
3. Part of a linked series of academic killings, including Brown Univ., possibly by foreign agents stealing tech.
Here is the corrected version of your text, focusing on grammar, punctuation, and syntax while keeping your original tone:
Dominus vobiscum. (The Lord be with you.) Et cum spiritu tuo. (And with your spirit.)
"Et cum spiritu tuo" sounds like "conspiritutu," suggesting conspiracies. We need to put Alexander Emerick Jones, aka Alex Jones, on standby to expand on these theories.
Friday, 19 December 2025: The World Clock — Worldwide timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Source: Grok @grok Here are three speculative conspiracy theories about the shooting of MIT Prof. Nuno Loureiro:
He was assassinated by fossil fuel interests to halt his fusion energy research, which threatened oil dominance.
He was targeted due to his reported Jewish heritage and pro-Israel views amid geopolitical tensions.
This was part of a linked series of academic killings, including those at Brown University, possibly carried out by foreign agents stealing technology.
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World-renowned MIT nuclear researcher was assassinated in his home in targeted attack by Iranian operative, Israel says dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Et cum spiritu tuo. And with your spirit.
Et cum spiritu tuo. which sounds like conspiritutu for conspirations
We need to put, Alexander Emerick Jones aka Alex Jones, on standby to expands on those theories below.⤵️
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Friday 19 December 2025: The World Clock — Worldwide timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Source:Grok @grok
Here are 3 speculative conspiracy theories about MIT Prof. Nuno Loureiro's shooting:
1. Assassinated by fossil fuel interests to halt his fusion energy research threatening oil dominance.
2. Targeted due to his reported Jewish heritage and pro-Israel views amid geopolitical tensions.
3. Part of a linked series of academic killings, including Brown Univ., possibly by foreign agents stealing tech.
Here is the corrected version of your text, focusing on grammar, punctuation, and syntax while keeping your original tone:
Dominus vobiscum. (The Lord be with you.) Et cum spiritu tuo. (And with your spirit.)
"Et cum spiritu tuo" sounds like "conspiritutu," suggesting conspiracies. We need to put Alexander Emerick Jones, aka Alex Jones, on standby to expand on these theories.
Friday, 19 December 2025: The World Clock — Worldwide timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Source: Grok @grok Here are three speculative conspiracy theories about the shooting of MIT Prof. Nuno Loureiro:
He was assassinated by fossil fuel interests to halt his fusion energy research, which threatened oil dominance.
He was targeted due to his reported Jewish heritage and pro-Israel views amid geopolitical tensions.
This was part of a linked series of academic killings, including those at Brown University, possibly carried out by foreign agents stealing technology.
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World-renowned MIT nuclear researcher was assassinated in his home in targeted attack by Iranian operative, Israel says dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Friday 19 December 2025: The World Clock — Worldwide timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Source: nypost*com
World News
Israel investigating whether Iran was involved in murder of MIT nuclear prof Nuno Loureiro: report
By: Ronny Reyes: Published Dec. 18, 2025, 1:35 p.m. ET
Today's Video Headlines
Israeli officials are reportedly investigating any links between Iran and the murder of an MIT nuclear physics professor who specialized in nuclear science, an Israeli newspaper claims.
Prof. Nuno Loureiro, 47, was gunned down in his Brookline, MA, apartment on Monday, with little progress made so far in solving his murder.
An Israeli investigation was reportedly launched against the backdrop of Loureiro’s research in energy and nuclear physics, a notable topic of interest for Tehran, The Jerusalem Post reported.
MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was killed in a shooting at his home in Brookline, MA, on Monday night.MIT📷3
The investigation into the deadly shooting remains ongoing, with no suspects or motives named yet.James Keivom📷3
The alleged investigation, however, has not been officially verified nor is it supported by any findings from US investigators, the newspaper said.
There is also no clear evidence so far linking Loureiro’s murder to Iran or its intelligence operation, sources told the JPost.
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Aussie PM blasted as having ‘blood on his hands’ as 10-year-old Bondi terror attack victim is laid to rest
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Cops investigating whether Brown, MIT murders are connected — after days of unsuccessful manhunts
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Sydney mom reveals horrifying moment Bondi Beach terrorists opened fire while children fled
Loureiro, a father-of-three, was at his home at around 8:30 p.m. on Monday when several gunshots rang out at the foyer of his apartment complex.
He was found bloodied and lying on the ground by his stunned neighbors, who quickly called first responders to transport the wounded scientists to a local hospital, where he died.
There is no evidence at this time tying the murder to Iranian Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his intelligence network.AP📷3
Loureiro, a theoretical physicist and fusion scientist, joined MIT in 2016 and was appointed deputy director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in 2022.
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A native of Viseu, Portugal, he was named last year to lead MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, where he worked to advance clean energy technology and other research, according to the university.
While Loureiro’s death has triggered speculation and theories on social media, local cops have yet to reveal any suspects or motive for the murder.
Filed under: boston: iran: mit: shootings: 12/18/25
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World News
Israel investigating whether Iran was involved in murder of MIT nuclear prof Nuno Loureiro: report
By: Ronny Reyes: Published Dec. 18, 2025, 1:35 p.m. ET
Today's Video Headlines
Israeli officials are reportedly investigating any links between Iran and the murder of an MIT nuclear physics professor who specialized in nuclear science, an Israeli newspaper claims.
Prof. Nuno Loureiro, 47, was gunned down in his Brookline, MA, apartment on Monday, with little progress made so far in solving his murder.
An Israeli investigation was reportedly launched against the backdrop of Loureiro’s research in energy and nuclear physics, a notable topic of interest for Tehran, The Jerusalem Post reported.
MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was killed in a shooting at his home in Brookline, MA, on Monday night.MIT📷3
The investigation into the deadly shooting remains ongoing, with no suspects or motives named yet.James Keivom📷3
The alleged investigation, however, has not been officially verified nor is it supported by any findings from US investigators, the newspaper said.
There is also no clear evidence so far linking Loureiro’s murder to Iran or its intelligence operation, sources told the JPost.
Explore More
📷
Aussie PM blasted as having ‘blood on his hands’ as 10-year-old Bondi terror attack victim is laid to rest
📷
Cops investigating whether Brown, MIT murders are connected — after days of unsuccessful manhunts
📷
Sydney mom reveals horrifying moment Bondi Beach terrorists opened fire while children fled
Loureiro, a father-of-three, was at his home at around 8:30 p.m. on Monday when several gunshots rang out at the foyer of his apartment complex.
He was found bloodied and lying on the ground by his stunned neighbors, who quickly called first responders to transport the wounded scientists to a local hospital, where he died.
There is no evidence at this time tying the murder to Iranian Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his intelligence network.AP📷3
Loureiro, a theoretical physicist and fusion scientist, joined MIT in 2016 and was appointed deputy director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in 2022.
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What do you think? Post a comment.
A native of Viseu, Portugal, he was named last year to lead MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, where he worked to advance clean energy technology and other research, according to the university.
While Loureiro’s death has triggered speculation and theories on social media, local cops have yet to reveal any suspects or motive for the murder.
Filed under: boston: iran: mit: shootings: 12/18/25
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@nypost @Shayan86 1).
– „As the mother of Jewish children [1], I feel a profound sense of sadness and remorse at the harm these words have caused. As this has become a distraction from the work at hand, I have offered my resignation” – declared Catherine Almonte Da Costa [2] [3].
Dec. 19, 2025
– „As the mother of Jewish children [1], I feel a profound sense of sadness and remorse at the harm these words have caused. As this has become a distraction from the work at hand, I have offered my resignation” – declared Catherine Almonte Da Costa [2] [3].
Dec. 19, 2025
@nypost @Shayan86 2).
[1] „Da Costa’s husband, Ricky Da Costa, is Jewish. He works as a deputy under Comptroller Brad Lander, the city’s highest ranking Jewish official, who cross-endorsed with Mamdani in the Democratic primary for mayor and enthusiastically backed him in the general election.”
[1] „Da Costa’s husband, Ricky Da Costa, is Jewish. He works as a deputy under Comptroller Brad Lander, the city’s highest ranking Jewish official, who cross-endorsed with Mamdani in the Democratic primary for mayor and enthusiastically backed him in the general election.”
@nypost @Shayan86 3).
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SitRep - 18/12/25 - EU leaders summit in Brussels
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. An important meeting was held in Brussels where EU leaders gathered to talk about financing Ukraine's budget gaps through 2026-2027.
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An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. An important meeting was held in Brussels where EU leaders gathered to talk about financing Ukraine's budget gaps through 2026-2027.
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